Health Informatics Officer at Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops

REF - KCCB-ACTS/9/2022/12

JOB PURPOSE

The Health Informatics Officer will work closely with KCCB ACTS technical team members and health facility team and is a dedicated resource for designing, developing, and maintaining EMR/EHR and a suite of other software applications. The candidate will serve as a key software development focal person who can translate KCCB - ACTS data requirements into a final, robust, scalable, and secure software product.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Enhance existing EMR/EHR by analyzing program requirements, preparing an action plan and identifying areas for modification and improvement;
• Utilize established development tools, guidelines and conventions to design, develop, and test the EMR/EHR;
• Maintain existing EMR/EHR by identifying and correcting software defects;
• Engaging users and the program technical team in order to prioritize system feature requests;
• Provide insight regarding usability and user experience to guide the development and impact of the EMR/HER for KCCB ACTS program;
• Work closely with KCCB ACTS Monitoring and Evaluation Officers, Program
• Technical Advisors and facility teams in defining and achieving data quality objectives;
• Empower/train EMR users about functionalities of the systems
• Learn and develop skills to keep abreast with new technologies;
• Leverage knowledge and contribute to proper knowledge management within the program;
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed;
• Develop other software applications as requested;
• Any other duties that may be reasonably assigned

Minimum Qualifications, Experience & Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a closely related field
• At least three (3) years of system programming experience with responsibilities that includes software development, database
• development, system integration, data migration, and system performance optimization.
• Experience with EMR/EHR software is mandatory
• Experience in software development to include web applications, client- facing user interfaces, system integration and interoperability.
• Working experience with either ASP.NET and/or Java.
• Experience in mobile programming (android) is definite advantage
• Excellent understanding of modern database design and development (MS- SQL, MySQL, Postgres).
• Understands unit testing, APIs, JSON, jQuery, serialization, object oriented programming, data exchange, source control
• Ability to investigate and develop skills in new technologies
• Prior experience with Kenya EMR is highly desirable but not mandatory
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work in a team environment, collaborating and sharing ideas
• A willingness to meet new challenges with enthusiasm and meet deadlines in fast paced environment
• Statistical analysis skills and experience is desirable